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from Salisbury. It is inclosed by a double circular jj,, 
and ditch, nearly thirty feet broad, after crossing 
ascent of thirty yards leads to the woik. The whole 
■was originally composed of two circles and two ovals- 
outer circle is about 108 feet in diameter, consisting) '' 
entire, of sixty stones, thirty uprights, and thirty impfs^^jy 
which there now remain twenty-four uprights 
seventeen standing, and seven down, three feet and a 
asunder, and eight imposts. Eleven uprights have tlie^ 
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what more than eight feel from the inside of the 
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The walk between these two cit'^ 
imposts on them by the grand entrance : these stones ar^ 
thirteen to twenty feet high. The smaller circle " 
and consisted of forty smaller stones, the highest mea’ ,|y 
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about six feet, nineteen only of which now remain, a“' 
eleven standing 
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300 feet in circumference. The adytu7ti._ or cell, 
oval formed of ten stones, from sixteen to twenty-t^ ® 
high, in pairs, and with imposts above thirty feet high, ^ jj()i 
in height as they go round, and each pair separate, 
connected as the outer pair : the highest eight feed jiJ 
these are nineteen other smaller single stones, ot '''h'.gt)'* 
jiily are standing. At the upper end of the adytuut 
altar, a large slab of blue coarse marble, twenty inches ‘ 
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sixteen feeT long, and four broad ; it is jiressed down -'.yiiii 
weight of the vast stones which have fallen upon yr?" 
whole number of stones, uprights and imposts, 
bending the altar, is 140. The stones, which 
by some considered as artificial, were most probably 
from those called the grey weathers on Marlborough 
distant fifteen or sixteen miles ; and if tried "'hh ‘ piffi 
appear of the same hardness, grain, and colour, 
reddish. The heads of oxen, deer, and other be3®|j’ j,, th^ 
been found in digging in and about Stoiiehenge : 
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circumjacent barrows human bones. From the . 
structure there are three entrances, the most consid ‘ ^^ei: 
which is from the north-east ; and at each of w 
raised, on the outside of the trench, two huge stoii ^ 
two smaller parallel ones within. _ fii'i'^ j- 
Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his history ot ’f 
written in the reign of King Stephen, represents * ' ^tH'5 ’|;i 
ment as having been erected at the command e 
Ambrosius, the last British king, in memory ot 40^ 
